A/N: Okay guys thanks for the reviews! Here's the next chappie!
Clary:
I woke up in my new bed and looked at the light outside to see that it was just after dawn. I sighed and got up from my bed to head to the bathroom. Once in there, I took a shower, washed my hair and brushed my teeth. I left the bathroom to head to the closet to find some clothes for me to train in. I found a pair of loose fitting black trousers and a black corset with a loose white shirt on top. I slipped on a pair of riding boots and left my room to go outside. I sneaked through the halls without anyone noticing and left through the side gate to head towards the forest by the castle and headed towards a clearing. I stopped in the middle of the clearing to see that trees surrounded me on every corner, which would make good target practice. I pulled my swords, bow and arrows off of my back to set them on the ground. I set my eyes on one tree and whipped knife after knife at it until all of the knives were in a straight line. I sighed seeing that some of the knives were out of alignment. My father would train me endlessly until the routine that he wanted me to do was perfect. I would be beaten severely if one thing was imperfect. I stepped back and started to do aerial flips in the air and flying from tree to tree so that I didn't leave a rustle in the air. I was mid flip when I heard someone call my name. The only good thing about my training with father was that he would always have me practice flips whilst distracting me, so I fell out of my flip perfectly. I turned to see that Jace was looking at me while holding a sword with a knife belt around his waist. He stepped from out of the shadows of the trees to come towards me.
"Don't you know it's rude to stare? Even if I am stunning and amazing to watch." I told him.
"Well, I can't tell you that you are amazing unless I have sparred with you because a many people have told me that I am quite the warrior." He said smugly.
"Well, we we'll just have to see who the best warrior is then. Come on, we're already out here."
He came forward smiling and took his knife belt off so he could move more freely. I picked up both of my swords and sheathed one on my back. I walked towards him but stopped a few feet short so we could circle each other. We were circling for so long that I got tired and decided to start the fight. I launched to his left for a swipe at his ribs when he blocked it with his sword. I pulled back and he feigned an attack to my right side but to take a swipe at my arm. I felt blood ooze on my arm, but compared to what my father did to me, this was just a little scratch. I jumped in the air and did a somersault so I could stand behind him. Once there, I swiped my leg in front of me so he fell forward on the ground. He fell to the ground and I stabbed downward with my sword but he rolled out of the way in time. He jumped up from the ground and came at me with his sword raised high and was about to swing down when I charged at him and barreled into his stomach. He let out a ooof and fell to the ground with me on top.
"Told you that I was amazing." I said cockily.
"Well darling, I guess you were right. But I would have to say that you took me by surprise. Next time though, you're mine." He said while his eyes darkened.
My eyes widened as he did this and I scooted off of him to back away. He called my name to ask me what was wrong but I just shook my head and grabbed my stuff to run back to my room. When Jace said those things and his eyes darkened it had reminded me so much of Jonathan that I could swear that I was pinning him down instead of Jace. Jonathan was always a loose cannon especially with me. He would always look at me with lust in his eyes and whenever we would spar he would always hurt me everywhere and then he would sneak into my room to do terrible things to me. I was the only girl in my father's mansion so the other thieves would always make comments at me and try to grope me. And my father didn't care at all. He would just yell at me to suck it up and beat the crap out of them if they went too far. I would suck it up too but sometimes I would go to my room after that and go and cry. That's what I was doing right now as well. I curled up on my bed with my weapons spilled all over the floor and bawled my eyes out into my pillow until I felt a pair of strong arms pull me to their chest. I knew it was the king because of the way his clothes felt underneath me. I curled into his chest as he rocked me back and forth.
"Clarissa, it's okay. When you're ready you can tell us anything. We are willing to listen to anything you want to say to us." He whispered to me.
I was still crying but I was aware enough to shake my head. I was still crying when I felt my bed dip some more and my crying body was transferred to a small more petite one. The Queen Celine.
"Dear, the Lightwoods are downstairs waiting for our arrival, you go downstairs and I will be down with Clary soon." She told him.
The bed lightened and Celine pulled me closer to her while I was still crying. I was calming down a bit and she was rubbing my back soothingly. I started to sniffle when I looked up and saw her looking at me with concerned blue eyes.
"Are you okay now Clary? You can tell me anything, I hope you know that. But it will have to wait until a little later because we have some guests right now. I know that you don't have a likeness for dresses and that you prefer to dress in man clothes but right now we have one of the royal families visiting so I need you to put a dress on. I'll be waiting in the hall for you when you come out."
She got off of the bed and went to wait in the hall while I went into the bathroom to take a quick shower. Whilst in the shower, I washed my hair and scrubbed my skin clean. I stepped out of the shower to step in front of the mirror. Once the fog cleared, I saw how bloodshot my eyes were and realized just how much I had cried. I rubbed my eyes and walked out of the bathroom to see a maid waiting with a red dress laying on the bed behind her. She helped me dress in simple bra and underwear and a slip that would go under the corset I was to wear. She put the small corset on me and it was tight enough that I could breathe easily. She helped me slip the red dress on me and I sat at the vanity table as she put a light foundation on along with a dusting of bronze and green mascara with pink lipstick. She curled my hair so that they were resting against my back without bouncing everywhere. I stepped in front of the mirror to see that I looked exactly how my mother looked when she would wear dresses. I gave a slight gasp at the crown that was resting upon my curls and saw how the dress flared out at the bottom near my feet but how snug it was to my cleavage and torso. The maid had simple black flats and a black shawl waiting in her arms by the door. I slipped the shawl around my shoulders and the flats onto my feet. I stepped out of the room with the maid behind me and saw that the Queen was waiting patiently while looking at a painting in the hall. She looked up when she heard my door open and gasped.
"Clary, you look beautiful! You should wear red more often it brings out the green in your eyes and makes your hair seem that much more red." She said linking her arm through mines.
"Thank you, your majesty. And yes I know you want me to call you by your first name but we have guests and formality is imminent. Now let's journey to the ball room so we don't keep our guests waiting." I said blushing.
"Look at you thinking like a royal already. Well, you do have a good point, we don't want to keep our guests waiting for us."
She led me to the ball room where I could hear music and chattering. We entered after the sage announced the Queens arrival along with mine. The guests clapped as we entered and we started to mingle with everyone. Everybody was nice to me even if I did come basically from out of nowhere. I laughed at all the jokes that people would make and I also made small conversation with everybody. The horns sounded announcing that the king was going to make an announcement to everyone. Celine came towards me and pulled me towards the dais while the others bowed respectfully. Stephen told them to raise and then he smiled at me and Celine.
"Hello my wonderful subjects, we are gathered here today to celebrate my lovely niece and nephews birthday of seventeen years. Now I know that many of you have not met her, so let me introduce you to the newest member of the castle, Clarissa." He said waving towards me.
"Now, with that said, I will commence with the dancing portion of this evening."
The band started up a nice dancing tune and the King made his way over to us so he could dance with Celine. I backed away as he swept her towards the dance floor. I smiled as I saw the bright smile light up her face and the way the King held her as they danced. I was so entranced in watching them dance that I didn't notice four people make their way towards me. Jace was walking over with a girl wearing a strapless purple gossamer dress with black hair and deep brown hair, a boy wearing black dress pants and a white poofy shirt with black hair and blue eyes and a little boy wearing a little version of what the older boy was wearing and had gray eyes behind glasses and had black hair. Jace was wearing black pants with a red shirt that matched the shade of my dress.
"Clary these are my cousins, this is Isabelle, Alec, and Max. They are my mother's sisters children and are of the Lightwood royal family. Now, it's time to dance and I need someone to dance with, so how about it Clary, would you like to dance with me?" he asked.
"You're asking me to dance with you when there are a whole fanclub of girls here that would die for the chance to dance with you?" I asked him.
"Jace! She so did not fall for your charm at all. I like you already! But you should dance with Jace at least once so he can see what it's like to dance with someone that isn't in love with him." Isabelle said.
"Alright, it might teach him something about women. Let's go dance Jace." I told him.
He held his arm out to me and I took it graciously as the band started to play a slow song. All the couples moved onto the dance floor along with Jace, Alec, Isabelle and I. I put one of my hands on Jace's shoulder and I put the other in his hand while Jace put his other hand on my hip. We started to moved side to side when the music picked up in tempo and we started to speed up until it was just me, Jace and his parents dancing on the floor with everyone watching. The King and Queen left the floor and watched as Jace and I were still dancing on the floor. He twirled me around him and dipped me down to pull me back up again. The song ended with my hands against his chest and his against my back and we were both breathing heavily. We walked off the dance floor and everyone crowded it to mingle while we went over to where Alec and Isabelle were waiting.
"You guys were perfect on that dance floor! I've never seen any dance with someone that in tune unless they were married. It's some of a miracle that Jace didn't try to kiss you." Isabelle said.
"Hmm, really, it was like dancing with my brother whenever I did that. But it wasn't that often so I suppose I was a bit rusty." I said blushing at that.
"You didn't seem rusty, you seemed as if you danced regularly. But if you ever need dance lessons I am here for you." Jace said looking at me.
"I might take you up on that offer. And thank you Isabelle, you were right. I think Jace learned something from me dancing with him." I told her.
"I think he did as well." She said smirking.
"And what pray tell is this lesson that I am not aware that I learned?" he asked.
"That not all girls are in love with you and when they are your friend only, they are a decent enough dancer." I said.
"Well, consider me taught."
"It was great meeting all of you but I think that I will retire for the night. Good night." I told them.
I made my way towards my room thinking of the dance that Jace I had just had. He had held me so close that I could feel his heart beating against my hand. He dipped me so low I thought he would drop me but his hands were so sure on my back that those thoughts immediately left me and I just reveled in the thought of Jace holding me. Then the dance was over and he held me up so that our faces were mere inches from each other. I pulled away so nothing would happen and brushed the thoughts away until now. I couldn't afford to get close to Jace for fear that my father and Jonathan would find out. They would use him to get me to come back to them. I knew that my father wanted to get me back to him, I was his possession in which he would show off to other people. I was determined to not go back to him but that also meant that I had to protect the royal family here from them. I just hoped that the announcement of the Kings new addition to his family wouldn't reach Thieves forest and my father would hear of me. I walked into my room and stropped the dress off to put my pajamas on from the night before and went into the bathroom to wash the makeup off of my face and brush my teeth. I slipped under my green blankets and lay my head on my pillow. I closed my eyes and tried to will those thoughts of Valentine coming for me and thought of Jace and our dance instead.
A/N: Okay so Clary is starting to get feelings for Jace but she is afraid to get close because of her crazy family. And she seems to have bad memories with her brother and then some good ones.